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1. (adj.) knotty
having or full of knots.
2. knotty
involved, intricate, or difficult.
Etymology: (1200–50)
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| Definition of 'knotty' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
"a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
2. (adj) gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
"gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
3. (adj) Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
"the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
4. (adj) knotty, snarled, snarly
tangled in knots or snarls
"a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
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| Definition of 'knotty' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. knotty
full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope
2. knotty
hard; rugged; as, a knotty head
3. knotty
difficult; intricate; perplexed
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Sense: containing knots.
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 Afrikaans: knopperig |
 Arabic: مُعَقَّد، مَليء بالعُقَد |
 Bulgarian: с възли |
 Brazilian: com nós |
 Czech: uzlovitý; sukovitý |
 German: knotig |
 Danish: knudret |
 Greek: ροζιασμένος |
 Spanish: nudoso |
 Estonian: sõlmiline, okslik |
 Farsi: پر گره |
 Finnish: solmuinen |
 French: noueux |
 Hebrew: מָלֵא קְשָרִים |
 Hindi: गंठीला, गांठदार |
 Croatian: čvornat |
 Hungarian: csomós |
 Indonesian: penuh bonggol |
 Icelandic: hnútóttur, hnÿttur; kvist |
 Italian: nodoso |
 Japanese: 結び目のある |
 Korean: 매듭이 있는 |
 Lithuanian: su mazgais |
 Latvian: mezglains; zarains |
 Malay: bersimpul-simpul |
 Dutch: vol knopen |
 Norwegian: med kvister/knuter; floke |
 Polish: sękaty |
 Persian: پر گره |
 Pashto: ډك له غوټو او بندونو نه |
 Portuguese: com nós |
 Russian: узловатый |
 Slovak: hrčavý; hrčovitý |
 Slovenian: vozlast |
 Serbian: čvornovat |
 Swedish: knutig, knölig, kvistig |
 Thai: มีปมมาก |
 Turkish: düğümlü, düğüm düğüm |
 Taiwanese: 有結的 |
 Ukrainian: вузлуватий; сучкуватий |
 Urdu: گرہ دار |
 Vietnamese: nhiều nút |
 Chinese: 有结的 |
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